Of course the Bezos owned Washington Post has no trouble finding a few accounts posting racist garbage (might also be trolls) - and if they didn't they probably could have created those accounts. I'm pretty sure they didn't got the tweets from their feeds or the front page. It's just spinning a narrative that the takeover by Musk is bad.
I think it's going to be interesting to see how "moderation" will work in the future. I sometimes actually found it quite useful as a curating mechanism in sort of a Streisand effect way - if someone is banned for non-obvious stuff I'm always interested what they don't want me to see. Then again, I'm not a twitter user and don't have an account. I'm not sure if all the journalists throwing a fit right now are afraid that they are going to be censored or just worried that other, more compelling content is no longer being censored and they lose out in the attention economy...
Economically this purchase makes zero sense, but so did Twitters stock price so far. It's not profitable and I don't think they ever came up with a way to make it turn a profit. So that just makes it a super expensive toy for Musk who seems to enjoy pissing off certain people to an extent that is unhealthy.
The Death of The Boy Genius
Of course the Bezos owned Washington Post has no trouble finding a few accounts posting racist garbage (might also be trolls) - and if they didn't they probably could have created those accounts. I'm pretty sure they didn't got the tweets from their feeds or the front page. It's just spinning a narrative that the takeover by Musk is bad.
I think it's going to be interesting to see how "moderation" will work in the future. I sometimes actually found it quite useful as a curating mechanism in sort of a Streisand effect way - if someone is banned for non-obvious stuff I'm always interested what they don't want me to see. Then again, I'm not a twitter user and don't have an account. I'm not sure if all the journalists throwing a fit right now are afraid that they are going to be censored or just worried that other, more compelling content is no longer being censored and they lose out in the attention economy...
Economically this purchase makes zero sense, but so did Twitters stock price so far. It's not profitable and I don't think they ever came up with a way to make it turn a profit. So that just makes it a super expensive toy for Musk who seems to enjoy pissing off certain people to an extent that is unhealthy.